Shopping before price increase
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myfinishingtouch
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Do we know for sure that prices are going up?
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myfinishingtouch said:
In CANADA yes, March 1st
http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-tools-accessories/canadian-price-increase/msg376031/#msg376031
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How about in the U.S.?
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myfinishingtouch said:
No official announcement yet for any US price adjustments. Last year (2014) there was a price increase effective in April
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fperra said:
[member=14192]fperra[/member], [welcome] to the FOG! And you might think that - if you're new to Festool or still innocent.
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Once you've started down the slippery slope, you realize that they set you up to need stuff - kinda like a drug dealer does. Then they dangle new toys in front of you until you can't stand it anymore and just HAVE to have more systainers full of green goodness. REGARDLESS of the price.
I suspect that the price increase won't significantly boost sales during March to beat it. Those who have all the tools they 'need' right now won't buy more just to beat it, and those who think Festool's prices are already too high will just point to it as another reason not to buy. That leaves those who were thinking about a tool but were on the fence. The price increase might give them a little nudge...or it might not.
[blink] [scratch chin]
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Big nudge in my case.....
Good thing I just got my MFT/3 & TS55 REQ combo then. Also just loaded up on abrasives too but those were just planned things.
I suspected Festool would be increasing their prices yet again though. Three things you can count on in life; death, taxes and Festool price increases
-Jim
I suspected Festool would be increasing their prices yet again though. Three things you can count on in life; death, taxes and Festool price increases
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I did a little shopping before the next price increase.
I picked up a RS 2 E with a butt load of paper and the systainer for the paper. Also picked up the RTS400. I have the LS130 so I can use that paper for both the sanders.
So I'm all tapped out on buying Festool tools. From here on out it's consumables. UNLESS the VAC SYS becomes available !
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Eric
I picked up a RS 2 E with a butt load of paper and the systainer for the paper. Also picked up the RTS400. I have the LS130 so I can use that paper for both the sanders.
So I'm all tapped out on buying Festool tools. From here on out it's consumables. UNLESS the VAC SYS becomes available !
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Eric
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I just picked up the Vecturo, LR32 kit and the holy 55 rail. Lucky for me our new Festool dealer, Cherokee Wood, had it all in stock. [big grin] [big grin] [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]
Might still pick up a SYS-Midi Systainer and some blades for the Vecturo
Might still pick up a SYS-Midi Systainer and some blades for the Vecturo
Greg, the Midi Systainer really adds usability. I am surprised that more mention of them hasn't happened here.
Peter
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It is hard for Festool to attract me with the same influences that appear to govern many Festool buys. For me Festool only matters to the degree that it enhances the quality of my work. If I can get the effect I want with a pitchfork I will use a pitchfork. Most of my work is manual or by hand (as opposed to hand power tool). Where I spend my money then is on the best manual tools for the job at hand. Sometimes Festool is right for a power tool I need.
I love the Festool routers. They may not do everything the best but their power is undeniable. If I had a lotta' work for a jigsaw, I do not think I could resist a Festool jigsaw. Again their power for a jigsaw is undeniable and their ability to hold the angle of cut they hold probably as a consequence of having so much power at their disposal and those two bases as much as anything. As it is my jigsaw is nothing special but I don't have work for one and the work I have for one is kinda' crude. Cut a rough circle with a jigsaw then clean it up and make it right with a router...maybe. My jigsaw will do that much.
So that is the best example I can give for why I would spend for a Festool router and not a Festool Jigsaw. A router is more often than not going to be given the responsibility for giving me a finished edge and to my mind that takes grunt....grunt in a router will give you a clean finished edge. No matter how good the jigsaw, I am not going to rely on it for a finished edge. There are routers as grunty as the Festool. They are usually speced along the lines of the other miss-specked routers out there and they don't give you as much control and precision in the set up for a plunge router as you get with a Festool. One or two plunge as good as a Festool plunges and even better but they won't hold their settings as well just as an example or their ergonomics are are not as good making it more difficult to handle that power. The Dewalt 625 and 621's are great examples. They plunge great in fact and by reputation. But also by reputation, they have a difficult time holding their fine adjust settings which would drive me nuts. Pretty decent dust collection though and I think the inventors of dust collection in a router. Don't quote me on that one though. Probably the only other plunge router you could get me to buy for handheld use would be a Dewalt 625.
I love the Festool routers. They may not do everything the best but their power is undeniable. If I had a lotta' work for a jigsaw, I do not think I could resist a Festool jigsaw. Again their power for a jigsaw is undeniable and their ability to hold the angle of cut they hold probably as a consequence of having so much power at their disposal and those two bases as much as anything. As it is my jigsaw is nothing special but I don't have work for one and the work I have for one is kinda' crude. Cut a rough circle with a jigsaw then clean it up and make it right with a router...maybe. My jigsaw will do that much.
So that is the best example I can give for why I would spend for a Festool router and not a Festool Jigsaw. A router is more often than not going to be given the responsibility for giving me a finished edge and to my mind that takes grunt....grunt in a router will give you a clean finished edge. No matter how good the jigsaw, I am not going to rely on it for a finished edge. There are routers as grunty as the Festool. They are usually speced along the lines of the other miss-specked routers out there and they don't give you as much control and precision in the set up for a plunge router as you get with a Festool. One or two plunge as good as a Festool plunges and even better but they won't hold their settings as well just as an example or their ergonomics are are not as good making it more difficult to handle that power. The Dewalt 625 and 621's are great examples. They plunge great in fact and by reputation. But also by reputation, they have a difficult time holding their fine adjust settings which would drive me nuts. Pretty decent dust collection though and I think the inventors of dust collection in a router. Don't quote me on that one though. Probably the only other plunge router you could get me to buy for handheld use would be a Dewalt 625.
The Midis are great. I have six twos & six threes, actually these are Tanos that i purchased from Lee Valley. I have a pair of electric die grinders in one, a pair of regular grinders in one, my Hitachi 4 5/8' jointer in one, most of my M18 Milwaukees in one, a mini Milwaukee band mill in one, sawzall in one, a Makita 9904 in one, a Bosch 6" sander in one, metal forming tools in one, short pry bars, concrete chiselsin one and my lasers in another. I love the organization the Systainers bring to the many trades I'm involved in regularly.
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